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Writing Architectures - Ficto-Critical Approaches (Paperback)
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Writing Architectures - Ficto-Critical Approaches (Paperback)
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Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine
new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of
fiction before it becomes a built fact; likewise, every written
fiction relies on the construction of a context in which a story
can take place. This collection of essays explores what happens
when fiction, experimental writing and criticism are combined and
applied to architectural projects and problems. It begins with
ficto-criticism - an experimental and often feminist mode of
writing which fuses the forms and genres of essay, critique, and
story - and extends it into the domain of architecture, challenging
assumptions about our contemporary social and political realities,
and placing architecture in contact with such disciplines as
cultural studies, literary theory and ethnography. These sixteen
newly-written pieces have been selected for this volume to show how
ficto-critical writing can be a powerful vehicle for creative
architectural practice, providing new opportunities to explore
modes of writing about architecture both within and beyond the
discipline. The collection represents a broad range of geographical
and cultural positions including indigenous and non-Western
contexts, and includes a foreword and afterword by important
thinkers in the domains of architectural criticism (Jane Rendell)
and cultural studies/ethnography (Stephen Muecke).
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